Photo retouching is something I barely do in Photoshop. I just don’t get to starting of with. It’s one of the things however I really like to see and would like to do. So in my spare time I try as much tutorials about the topic. Of course I can’t keep those tutorials for my own good, so below you’ll find my top 10.

Professional Photo Retouch – Photoshop® CS4

Not a real tutorial, but it shows the possibilities to me and the end result is very nice.

Glamorous Glowing Model Effect on Your Image

This tutorial is short and easy. Even a beginner can do some real nice stuff after he follows this tutorial. That’s at least my opinion. With some really simple options and modifications your picture will get more glamorous.

Professional Photoshop retouching tutorial

This tutorial goes significantly deeper into the retouching. It explains to you what happens and you get to see how this guy does it.

Design Surreal Composition Fallen Angel’s Dream Fly

Not the retouching you might think of. The techniques used however can come in handy when retouching your own photo’s. On the other side, creating these kind of compositions is a specialty on it’s own.

Create a High Clarity Photo (Dave Hill style)

Everybody knows Dave Hill, at least you should! He always creates some nice HDR photo’s. You can accomplish something similar on your own photo’s with this tutorial.

These days everybody wants to be on some kind of social media. Big company’s are jumping into it like flies on a sugar cake. And if the company itself isn’t actively participating in social media, the company’s customers and fans will. I wondered how bigger company’s use social media in their marketing and went searching. I found some really useful links that will help you to implement similar things in your own social media marketing activities.

• 25 Must Read Social Media Marketing Tips
  This blog asks 25 company’s, and there in-house social media marketers, what there success story’s are when looking at social media in their businesses.
• How To Promote Your Business On Social Media
  Just like the title states, how can you promote your business on social media. It provides explanations about it.
• 8 Social Media Marketing Tips for Companies
  Same as above. The blog explains what 8 things you can do to start with when beginning your social media journey.

When browsing on Google Buzz today I found out a great website with a lot of Photoshop tutorials and websites. I never heard about this one before. The website features some cool tutorials about how to create a nice looking website with the help of Photoshop. You can find those here!

Another great feature of this site is an index of resources you can download freely! Think about it, free Stock Photo’s, Vector files and a lot more! This one I’m going to bookmark.

Check out www.psdvibe.com for more tutorials and resources.

Every decent web designer knows how to set up a website with HTML and CSS. When designing an email however a lot of things work differently. For example, when coding a website I always use divs, but with a HTML email it doesn’t work that great. It’s better to use tables for the layout!

CSS styles need to be inline to work at best, so creating a separate file for all CSS won’t get the job done when creating that cool email you want. And you guys know that browsers are rendering the code different. Well, email clients are even worse! Support for even some simple CSS varies considerably between mail clients, and even different versions of the same client.

On Campaignmonitor there’s a great list available where you can find out what each mail client supports for CSS. If you get it right in those 10 email clients, than you shouldn’t get into any problems at all and your mail will probably be handled correctly!

A good video about which website structure is better for SEO purposes. Conclusion: A flat structure. It minimizes the amount of clicks a user has to do. This gives you a better chance on the indexation of your pages.

SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday – Flat Site Architecture from Scott Willoughby on Vimeo.

A LinkedIn profile, almost every company has one. Most of the time these company profiles are pretty good setup and the CEO’s have a similar profile. Employees however have a LinkedIn profile also in most cases. Those profiles are personal of course but feature a lot of work related information. And there’s where most company’s need to work on.

Create similarity

When browsing company profiles on LinkedIn I see that most businesses got professional profiles and like I stated earlier their CEO’s got similar information in their profiles. But because of different information in employee profiles the whole picture of that company gets a bit blurry. To solve this, you’ll need to discuss the content with your employees and ask them to use the same company description throughout their profiles. Of course ban all the negative stuff on their too and solve the problems that are at the source of it!

A Social Media policy

It’s a good thing to create a company policy on social media and communicate this to your employees. That way the rules are clear and everyone has the same information in his profile. It makes your company’s image the same throughout the social media that’s used within your company. It’s wise though to protect the freedom employees have on the web, even in their social media!